MOELEY] INTRODUCTIOlSr TO STUDY OP MAYA HIEEOGLYPHS 269 



Two other Initial Series will suffice to exemplify this kind of count 

 in the codices. In plate 32 is figured page 62 from the Dresden 

 Codex. In the two right-hand columns appear two black numbers. 

 The first of these reads quite clearly 8.16.15.16.1, which the student 

 is perfectly justified in assuming is an Initial-series number consist- 

 ing of 8 cycles, 16 katuns, 15 tuns, 16 uinals, and 1 kin. Moreover, 

 above the 8 cycles is a glyph which bears considerable resemblance 

 to the Initial-series introducing glyph (see fig. 24,/) . Note in particular 

 the trinal superfix. At all events, whether it is an Initial Series or 

 not, the first step in deciphering it will be to reduce this number to 

 units of the first order: 



Deducting from this number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 67 

 (see Table XVI)., it may be reduced to 1,261. Applying rules 1, 2, 

 and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 141, respectively) to this remainder, the 

 terminal date reached will be 4 Imix 9 Mol. This is not the terminal 

 date recorded, however, nor is it the terminal date standing below 

 the next Initial-series number to the right, 8.16.14.15.4. It would 

 seem then that there must be some mistake or unusual feature about 

 this Initial Series. 



Immediately below the date which stands imder the Initial-series 

 number we are considering, 8.16.15.16.1, is another number consisting 

 of 1 tun, 4 uinals, and 16 kins (1.4.16). It is not improbable that 

 this is a Secondary-series number connected in some way with our 

 Initial Series. The red circle surmounted by a knot which surrounds 

 the 16 kins of this Secondary-series number (1.4.16) indicates that 

 the whole number is to be counted backward from some date. Ordi- 

 narily, the first Secondary Series in a text is to be counted from the 

 terminal date of the Initial Series, which we have found by calcula- 

 tion (if not by record) to be 4 Imix 9 Mol in this case. Assuming 

 that this is the case here, we might count 1.4.16 hackward from the 

 date 4 Imix 9 Mol. 



Performing all the operations indicated in such cases, the terminal 

 date reached will be foimd to be 3 Chicchan 18 Zip ; tliis is very close 

 to the date which is actually recorded just above the Secondary- 

 series number and just below the Initial-series number. The date 

 here recorded is 3 Chicchan 13 Zip, and it is not improbable that the 



